Summary of Promises, Outlooks and Challenges Of Diffusion Language Modeling, by Justin Deschenaux et al.
Promises, Outlooks and Challenges of Diffusion Language Modeling
by Justin Deschenaux, Caglar Gulcehre
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The recently proposed Score Entropy Discrete Diffusion (SEDD) approach is a promising alternative to autoregressive generation in large language models (LLMs). While LLMs have achieved outstanding performance on NLP benchmarks and are deployed in the real world, they still suffer from limitations of the autoregressive training paradigm. SEDD aims to address these limitations by providing an alternative to token-by-token generation. This approach has been shown to be generally competitive with autoregressive models in terms of perplexity and benchmark performance on datasets such as HellaSwag, Arc, or WinoGrande. Additionally, SEDD can offer significant improvements in inference latency, potentially up to 4.5 times more efficient than GPT-2. However, SEDD appears slightly weaker than GPT-2 for conditional generation given short prompts. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models (LLMs) are very smart computers that can understand and generate human-like text. They’re really good at doing this, but they have some limitations too. One way to address these limitations is by using a different approach called Score Entropy Discrete Diffusion (SEDD). This new method is promising because it’s fast and efficient. It’s like a shortcut that lets the computer generate text quickly. But SEDD isn’t perfect, and it does better on some tasks than others. Overall, SEDD is an interesting way to improve LLMs and make them even more useful. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoregressive » Diffusion » Gpt » Inference » Nlp » Perplexity » Token
